This week, the Wythe Hotel (80 Wythe Ave.) celebrates its ten year anniversary. While today, that stretch of Wythe Avenue in northern Williamsburg is home to several upscale boutique hotels, ten years ago, that wasn’t the case. Wythe was the first.
In addition to being a beautiful structure near the water, the building that houses the Wythe Hotelhas a storied past. In 1901, it was a factory that made barrels for sugar refiners and…
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